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[ { "msg_contents": "I ran into $SUBJECT whilst doing trial RPM packaging of 9.1. The problem\nis that make starts building contrib modules before errcodes.h has been\nmade, leading to failures such as\n\nIn file included from ../../src/include/postgres.h:48:0,\n from auth_delay.c:12:\n../../src/...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello, I have a question. In SQL Server, we can use @@rowcount to get the\nefftected row which record last query 's effected row .So I have a\nquestion:\nIn Postgresql, how we can get the effected row? Is there some similar\nfunctions to complete this?\n\n\n-- \nBest regards\n\nEazon\n\nHell...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI found a bug in plpgsql parser.\n\n\ncreate table t(a int, b int);\n\npostgres=# \\sf fx\nCREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()\n RETURNS void\n LANGUAGE plpgsql\nAS $function$\ndeclare r record;\nbegin\n r := (10,20)::t;\n if true then\n raise notice '% %', r.c, r.b;\n end i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello. How can we define a global variable in postgresql?\n\n-- \nBest regards\n\nEazon\n\nHello. How can we define a global variable in postgresql?-- Best regards \n\nEazon", "msg_date": "Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:58:39 +0800", "msg_from": "EazonGuo <eazonguo@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op"...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Hackers,\n\nI've recently noticed a particularly strange behaviour of one of my simple \nqueries:\nSELECT ra,dec FROM sdssdr7.photoobjall WHERE ra BETWEEN 175 and 190 AND\n dec BETWEEN 17 And 23 ;\nThe table is quite large (1.1Tb, 10^9 rows, and has Btree indexes on \n\"ra\",\"dec\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, we have two types of callbacks that can be registered to get\ncontrol when an invalidation message is received: syscache callbacks and\nrelcache callbacks. It strikes me that we might be better advised to\nunify these into a single type of callback that gets a\nSharedInvalidationM...
[ { "msg_contents": "CreateExtension() possibly creates a new schema when the supplied\nextension was not relocatable and the target schema was given by\ncontrol file of the extension.\nHowever, it allows users to create a new schema with his ownership,\neven if current user does not have permission to create a n...
[ { "msg_contents": "In common cases of snapshot use we run GetSnapshotData() into a\nstatically allocated snapshot, then immediately copy the static struct\ninto a dynamically allocated copy.\n\nThe static allocation was designed to remove the overhead of dynamic\nallocation, but then we do it anyway.\n\nThe sna...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi,\n\ni know that postgresql uses ts=4 for C source code.\nbut how about documatation?\n\nsrc/backend/access/transam/README seems to have both of\nts=4 and ts=8 mixed.\n\nYAMAMOTO Takashi\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:09:39 +0000 (UTC)", "msg_from": "yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n\nHere is a revised patch based on our earlier discussion. I implemented\nRobert's idea of tracking the vacuum generation number in the line\npointer itself. For LP_DEAD line pointers, the lp_off/lp_len is unused\n(and always set to 0 for heap tuples). We use those 30 bits to store\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHopefully someone can help me and point me in right direction :)\n\nI have been looking for GiST support extension for UUID datatype... since I\ncould not find it... I wanted to write it myself.\n\nI need it more for EXCLUSION constraint - than to use GIST index just on\nUUID column......
[ { "msg_contents": "I am developing against 9.1beta3 and encountered this problem. I repeated it against rc1 (or\nactually, REL9_1_STABLE taken from git today).\n\nThe below SQL causes:\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(item_width > 0)\", File: \"costsize.c\", Line: 3274)\n\nand the session crashes.\n\n\nselect *\nfr...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:\n> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:\n>> I wonder whether we could do something involving WAL properties --- the\n>> current tuple visibility logic was designed before WAL existed,...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking at Alexander's GiST fastbuild patch, which adds buffers to \ninternal nodes to avoid random I/O during index build, it occurred to me \nthat inserting the tuples to the leaf pages one at a time is quite \ninefficient too, even if the leaf pages are in cache. There's still the \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI am returning back to discus two months ago about usage of\nplpgsql_lint. I integrated this module to plpgsql's core. This feature\nis controlled via plpgsql GUC variable prepare_plans and via plpgsql\noption. It works with all plpgsql's regress tests without tests where\ndynamic sq...
[ { "msg_contents": "Back in 2009, I proposed the idea of Lazy Snapshots.\nThe idea was to put off generating a snapshot until we need one.\n\nI have further ideas on this now.\n\nIn general, this was a bad idea because...\n\nOn Tue, 2009-08-18 at 10:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:\n> Simon, this concept is completely ...
[ { "msg_contents": "One of my goals for the extensions feature has been that we should be able\nto get rid of the pg_pltemplate system catalog, moving all the information\ntherein into languages' extension definition files. This would allow\nthird-party procedural languages to be installed as easily as built-in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Given a document and a query, the goal of headline generation is to\nproduce text excerpts in which the query appears. Currently the headline\ngeneration in postgres follows the following steps:\n\n1. Tokenize the documents and obtain the lexemes\n2. Decide on lexemes that should be the part ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Recently a bug was reported on the JDBC list regarding table\nprivileges. It turns out that we have not been parsing the ACL tables\ncorrectly. This is partially due to having to track the catalogs\nthrough each version. So this breaks down into two questions\n\n1) is it possible to get all o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is the latest version of the Range Types patch. I will get it\ninto better shape before the commitfest, but wanted to put up a draft in\ncase anyone had comments on the TODO items.\n\nChanges:\n\n * Uses BTree opclass rather than compare function.\n * Collation specified at type de...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch adds an option to the COPY command to skip writing \nWAL when the following conditions are all met:\n\n1) The table is empty (zero size on disk)\n2) The copy command can obtain an access exclusive lock on the table \nwith out blocking.\n3) The WAL isn't needed for replicati...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is an undocumented patch that allows a user to have pg_dump \nexclude data but not DDL for a table. One use case for this is a very \nlarge table that changes infrequently, and for which dumping data \nfrequently would be wasteful and unnecessary. This is especially useful \nin conju...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached is an undocumented patch that allows pg_restore to omit \npost-data items or omit all but post-data items. This has been discussed \nbefore, and Simon sent in a patch back on 2008, which has bitrotted \nsome. I'm not sure why it was dropped at the time, but I think it's time \nto do ...
[ { "msg_contents": "In the CREATE DOMAIN reference page of the current HEAD, it says\n\n---\nCREATE DOMAIN us_postal_code AS TEXT\nCHECK(\n VALUE ~ '^\\\\d{5}$'\nOR VALUE ~ '^\\\\d{5}-\\\\d{4}$'\n);\n---\n\nbut I believe it should conform the standard string style now that the\ndefault is standard_conforming_s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Whilst testing the schema-creation-permissions scenario that Kaigai-san\nrecently pointed out, I happened to do this:\n\nregression=# create schema c;\nCREATE SCHEMA\nregression=# create extension cube with schema c;\nCREATE EXTENSION\nregression=# drop schema c;\nDROP SCHEMA\n\n... er, what?...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got burnt tonight by the fact that the earthdistance contrib module\nruns its regression test in database \"regression\", not\n\"contrib_regression\" as I was expecting and as every other contrib\nmodule does. The reason turns out to be that \nearthdistance/Makefile does this:\n\nREGRESS_O...
[ { "msg_contents": "Description:\n===========\n\nError Message \" invalid input syntax for type double precision: -1#I\" is\ndisplayed while running \"select pgstatindex\"\n\nIssue only getting reproduce on windows environment.\n\nAnalysis:\n=========\n\nConsider the following testcase to reproduce the issue on ...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached change to postgresql.conf.sample makes it more clear at a\nglance that the default value of listen_addresses is 'localhost', not\n'localhost, *'. This would have saved a friend an hour or two of fiddling\ntonight.\n\nThanks,\nDougal", "msg_date": "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:33:54 -0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe attached patches try to tackle our long-standing leaky view problem, and were revised according to the discussion we had in the commit-fest 1st.\n\nWe already knew two scenarios to leak contents of invisible tuples using functions with side-effects; such as error messages containin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nAt Heroku we use CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY with great success, but\nrecently when frobbing around some indexes I realized that there is no\nequivalent for DROP INDEX, and this is a similar but lesser problem\n(as CREATE INDEX takes much longer), as DROP INDEX takes an ACCESS\nE...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI am interesting about a CONTINUE HANDLER behave, please can you\ncheck, and send a result of following function?\n\n\n CREATE FUNCTION REVERSE(INSTR VARCHAR(4000))\n RETURNS INT\n DETERMINISTIC NO EXTERNAL ACTION CONTAINS SQL\n BEGIN\n DECLARE RES INT;\n DECLA...
[ { "msg_contents": "As background, I have an app that accepts user text input and casts it\nto a timestamp in order to produce reports. I use PostgreSQL's\ntimestamp input conversion for this, since it gives a lot of\nflexibility, and can parse pretty much anything the users throw at it.\n\nIt is also handy that...
[ { "msg_contents": "On my way to do something else entirely, I came across a couple of\nthings that are not very nice about psql's lexer:\n\n1. Somebody broke the no-backtracking property back in 9.0 while adding\nquoted variable substitution. According to the flex manual, use of\nbacktracking creates a perform...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nAttached SQL files gives (at least in my hands) a reliable backend crash\nwith this stacktrace .. reproduced on both 9.0.4 and HEAD. I'm sorry\nI cannot provide a more trimmed down set of vectors the reproduces the \nbug, thus\nthe \"obsfucated\" dataset. But even deleting single terms ...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi\n\nI have 8.3.11 database, ~ 600GB in size.\n\nI want to upgrade it to 9.0.\n\nFirst, I tried with 9.0.4, and when I hit problem (the same) I tried\ngit, head of 9.0 branch.\n\nSo. I did pg_upgrade with -c, and it looked like this:\n\n$ time pg_upgrade -c -v -b /opt/pgsql-8.3.11-int/bin/ -...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'd like to propose a small patch that allows better checkpoint progress\nmonitoring. The patch is quite simple - it adds a new integer GUC\n\"checkpoint_update_limit\" and every time checkpoint writes this number of\nbuffers, it does two things:\n\n(a) logs a \"checkpoint status\" ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI am sending this report to hackers to all hacker subscribers can read\nthe original bug report.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n----- Forwarded message from hubert depesz lubaczewski -----\n\nhi\n\nI have 8.3.11 database, ~ 600GB in size.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed a few places where it would be handy if dropdb took a flag\nlike \"--if-exists\" which would basically just add in the 'IF EXISTS'\nclause to the DROP DATABASE statement. For example, scripts like\nfind_static or mbregress.sh use dropdb && createdb, but they generate\nnoisy errors f...
[ { "msg_contents": "It has been years since I ran src/tools/pginclude/pgrminclude to remove\nunnecessary include files. (I have already fixed things so include\nfiles can be compiled on their own.)\n\nThe attached patch removes unneeded include references, and marks some\nincludes as needing to be skipped by pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello list,\n\nThis is something that I've only recently somewhat pinned down to a cause...\n\nSome Postgres servers will error out for a while with the following\nerror message:\n\n\"expected authentication request from server, but received c\"\n\nIf one uses Their Favorite Search Engine, th...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:\n> > > It has been years since I ran src/tools/pginclude/pgrminclude to remove\n> > > unnecessary include files. (I have already fixed things so include\n> > > files can be compiled on their own.)\n> > \n> ...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is an artificial test case shrunk down from a much larger real\nquery.\n\nCREATE TABLE test1 (\n sha1 bytea PRIMARY KEY,\n something text\n);\n\nCREATE TABLE test2 (\n sha1 bytea PRIMARY KEY,\n blah text\n);\n\nFill those with 1000 random rows each, e.g.,\n\nfor i in $(seq 1 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Avoid locale dependency in expected output.\n> \n> We'll have to settle for just listing the extensions' data types,\n> since function arguments seem to sort differently in different locales.\n> Per buildfarm results.\n\nThis could probably be worked around by using COLLATE \"C\" in psql \\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was able to obtain access to a 32-core HP-UX server. I repeated the\npgbench -S testing that I have previously done on Linux, and found\nthat the results were not too good. Here are the results at scale\nfactor 100, on 9.2devel, with various numbers of clients. Five minute\nruns, shared_...
[ { "msg_contents": "In anticipation of the release of PostgreSQL 9.1, it is once again time\nto update the message translations. We are now in a string freeze, which has \ntraditionally been associated with the first release candidate, so it's a \ngood time to do this work now.\n\nIf you want to help, see <http...
[ { "msg_contents": "Pity that this patch works only on hpux :(.\n\nBut i have an idea: maybe when executor stop at locked row, it should\nprocess next row instead of wait.\n\nOf course if query not contain \"order by\" or windowing functions.\n\n-- \n------------\npasman\n", "msg_date": "Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:...
[ { "msg_contents": "Has anyone else ever found this error message confusing:\n\nERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UTF8\": 0xdb24\n\nI think what is really meant is better expressed like this:\n\nERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UTF8\": 0xdb 0x24\n\nOtherwise it looks like a c...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch is a draft to support arguments in addition to\nOAT_* enum and object identifiers.\n\nThe existing object_access_hook enables loadable modules to acquire\ncontrol when objects are referenced. The first guest of this hook is\ncontrib/sepgsql for assignment of default securit...
[ { "msg_contents": "I spent a bit of time looking into $SUBJECT. The cause of the failure\nis that configure mistakenly decides that setproctitle and some other\nfunctions are available, when they aren't; this eventually leads to link\nfailures of course.\n\nNow 8.2 and 8.3 use autoconf 2.59. 8.4 and up, which...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nI'm seeing something weird which looks like a bug in 9.1rc1 after the \nupgrade 8.4->9.0->9.1 done using pg_upgrade.\n\nI have a set of *static* tables for which \"explain select * \" gives \nrow number estimates which are an order of magnitude lower than the actual \nnumber...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nis there some some result, report from PL summit?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel Stehule\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:21:50 +0200", "msg_from": "Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "any results from PL summit?" }, { "msg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nWhy do we parse this as a correct timestamptz literal:\n\n 2011-08-29T09:11:14.123 CDT\n\nbut not this:\n\n 2011-08-29T09:11:14.123 America/Chicago\n\nReplace the ISO-8601 style T between the date and time parts of the \nlatter with a space and the parser is happy again.\n\n\ncheers...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nI'd like to develop pushing down JOIN between foreign tables which are\non one foreign server, to enhance performance of joining foreign tables\nby reducing data transfer. This would need many changes in several part\nof PG such as planner, executor and FDW API, so please let me d...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 6184\nLogged by: Ding Yuan\nEmail address: ding.yuan.90@hotmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.4.8\nOperating system: All\nDescription: Inconsistencies in log messages\nDetails: \n\nHi Postgres developers,\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, hackers\n\nI try to compile from git repository and get some errors.\n\nWindows 7 x86\nVC Express 2008\nperl v5.8.9\nflex 2.5.4a-1\nbison 2.4.1\n\ngit clone git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git\ngit checkout REL9_0_4\n\ncd ...\\src\\tools\\msvc\nbuild.bat\n\n\n Build started: Proj...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n \n\nI am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048\nusing gcc 4.4.6.\n\n \n\nSince many years I did this successfully on other versions of AIX using\nxlc. However my version 9 of xlc is no longer running on AIX 6.1 and no\none is willing to sponsor a new versio...
[ { "msg_contents": "I think it would be useful to add the following explanation and sample\nto the postgresql.conf sample file:\n\ndiff --git i/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample w/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample\n--- i/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample\n+++ w/src/backend/uti...
[ { "msg_contents": "A while ago, I blogged about the following problem:\n(http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2011/07/undefined-symbol.html)\n\nBetween PG 8.4.4 and 8.4.5, a new symbol PinPortal was added to the\nbackend and plpgsql was changed to call it. So in that particular case,\nupgrading plpgsql without ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn order to compare the schema of two presumably identical databases, \nI've been diffing the output of pg_dump -Osx. However, I've found that \nthe order of the output is not very reliable. For example, after \nrecreating the Pagila sample database, I find the following:\n\n--- pagi...
[ { "msg_contents": "At one point, the question of casting between range types came up. At\nfirst, this seemed like a fairly reasonable suggestion, but now I don't\nthink I like the semantics.\n\nA normal cast changes between essentially equivalent values in different\ndomains. For instance 3 as an int4 is equiva...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 6189\nLogged by: Srinivas Aji\nEmail address: srinivas.aji@emc.com\nPostgreSQL version: 9.0.4\nOperating system: Linux\nDescription: libpq: sslmode=require verifies server certificate if\nroot.crt is pre...
[ { "msg_contents": "Out of curiosity,\n\nis anybody working on $subject? I'm currently planning to work on such a driver,\nbut given the current stream of new drivers i want to make sure to not \nduplicate any efforts...\n\n-- \nThanks\n\n\tBernd\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:13:11 +0200", "msg_fr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list!\n\nI'm getting really surprising planner estimates for a query that's\njoining another table via a varchar field. All of this was tested on\nPostgreSQL 8.4.8, 9.0.4 and 9.1rc1.\n\nThe original query is pretty huge, but I managed to shrink it down to this:\nSELECT * FROM email_message...
[ { "msg_contents": "While looking through old emails, I bumped into this:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/25219.1303306707@sss.pgh.pa.us\n\nTo recap, setlocale() on Windows is broken for locale names that contain \ndots or apostrophes in the country name. That includes \"Hong Kong \nS.A.R.\", \"Maca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Having trouble installing dblink under PostgreSQL 8.4.4 on MAC OS X 10.4.11\n\nRunning make gives the following error:\n\n\n\nsed 's,MODULE_PATHNAME,$libdir/dblink,g' dblink.sql.in >dblink.sql\n\ngcc -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith\n-Wdeclaration-after-statement...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI've just stumbled across this, which appears to be a regression from \n8.4 that is present in 9.0 and master:\n\n andrew=# create table foo (x int primary key);\n NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index\n \"foo_pkey\" for table \"foo\"\n CREATE TABLE\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nattached is WIP-patch for 9.2 development source tree, which provides\nimplementation of SP-GiST (prototype\nwas presented at PGCon-2011, see\nhttp://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html and presentation\nfor details) as a core feature. Main differences from prototype ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there,\n\nattached is our WIP-patch for 9.2 development source tree, which provides\nimplementation of SP-GiST (prototype was presented at PGCon-2011, see\nhttp://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html and presentation\nfor details) as a core feature. Main differences from prototy...
[ { "msg_contents": "Back in January/February, a patch was committed to avoid using libintl's \nversion of setlocale:\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-01/msg02628.php\n\nThe comment says it was about a problem with printf() and friends, so I \nwonder, why was that \"#undef setlocale\" line put...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nIn current PostgreSQL versions, subquery expressions in the SELECT list\nalways generate columns with name \"?column?\"\n\npostgres=# select (select 1 as foo);\n?column?\n--------\n 1\n\nThis patch improves on that:\n select (SELECT 1 AS foo) => foo\n select exists(SELECT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hallow hackers\n\nI have the following problem to solve and would like to get advice on\nthe best way to do it.\n\nThe problem:\n\nWhen growing a pl/proxy based database cluster, one of the main\noperations is splitting a partition. The standard flow is as follows:\n\n1) make a copy of the pa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Remove \"fmgr.h\" include in cube contrib --- caused crash on a Gentoo\nbuilfarm member.\n\nBranch\n------\nmaster\n\nDetails\n-------\nhttp://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5321842528dfb73f8254a48556b4adb1b6d1c5a\n\nModified Files\n--------------\ncontrib/cube/cubedata.h | 2 --\n1 file...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello everyone,\n\nI am implementing some functionality into Postgresql, where I want to\ntrack which row was accessed by a user query. I am implementing the\nfunctionality inside Postgres, so that there are no changes required\non client side (e.g. re-writing queries).\nRows are identified b...
[ { "msg_contents": "The fifth edition of the Italian PostgreSQL Day (PGDay.IT 2011) will be \nheld on November 25 in Prato.\n\nIt will cover topics for users, developers and contributors to \nPostgreSQL, as well as decision and policy makers. For more information \nabout the conference, please visit the website ...
[ { "msg_contents": " From what I can tell, everytime I start a postmaster on HEAD (at least\nwhen i've set wal_level=archive, and max_wal_senders > 0), I get the\nmessage:\nLOG: terminating all walsender processes to force cascaded standby(s)\nto update timeline and reconnect\n\nin the startup log.\n\nThis is l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Attached patch implements a \"low watermark wal location\" in the\nwalsender shmem array. Setting this value in a walsender prevents\ntransaction log removal prior to this point - similar to how\nwal_keep_segments work, except with an absolute number rather than\nrelative. For now, this is se...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nWho is our CommitFest Master for the next CF? It's only around 2 weeks\naway.\n\n-- \nJosh Berkus\nPostgreSQL Experts Inc.\nhttp://pgexperts.com\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:16:41 -0700", "msg_from": "Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>", "msg_from_op": true, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, here are all the C files with over 6k lines:\n\n- 45133 ./interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.c\n- 33651 ./backend/parser/gram.c\n- 17551 ./backend/parser/scan.c\n 14209 ./bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c\n 10590 ./backend/access/transam/xlog.c\n 9764 ./backend/commands/tablecmds.c\n 8681 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI'm pleased to announce the latest release of xlogdump.\nxlogdump is a tool for extracting data from WAL segment files.\n\nHere is xlogdump README:\nhttps://github.com/snaga/xlogdump/blob/master/xlogdump/README.xlogdump\n\nxlogdump was originally developed by Tom Lane and Diogo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Clean up the #include mess a little.\n\nwalsender.h should depend on xlog.h, not vice versa. (Actually, the\ninclusion was circular until a couple hours ago, which was even sillier;\nbut Bruce broke it in the expedient rather than logically correct\ndirection.) Because of that poor decision...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nthere is one regress test, that failed on my f14\n\n[pavel@nemesis postgresql]$ uname -a\nLinux nemesis 2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 21:12:22\nUTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux\n\nregression.diffs\n\n 3676/3676 100%\n**...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nThis simple query shouldn't cause two bitmap index scans:\nEXPLAIN select * from test where b='0';\n\n Bitmap Heap Scan on test (cost=1056.68..8200.12 rows=29839 width=314)\n Recheck Cond: ((b = 0) AND (b = 0::smallint))\n -> BitmapAnd (cost=1056.68..1056.68 rows=5237 width...
[ { "msg_contents": "At the PGCon 2011 PostgreSQL Developer Meeting the CommitFest\nschedule for 9.2 development was set. This called for four CFs, one\nmonth each, to start on these dates:\n \n - June 15\n - September 15\n - November 15\n - January 15\n \nWe're coming up on the start of the second of those in t...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am writing a talk about the lock manager for PG Open and I would like\nsuggestions on how to improve a query in my talk. The query creates a\nlockinfo_hierarchy view of a recursive query on other views. The output\nshows the locks held and the locks being waited for:\n\n\t\\! psql -e -c '...
[ { "msg_contents": "Barring any disastrous bug reports in the next few days, 9.1.0 will be\nwrapped Thursday evening for public announcement Monday September 12.\n\nTry not to break the 9.1 branch this week ;-)\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:40:14 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tomas, I cannot seem to see any of the patches you link here:\n\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=628\n\nLooks like you need to take the < > out of the messageid.\n\n-Andy\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:17:20 -0500", "msg_from": "Andy Colson <andy@squeakyco...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch:\n\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=605\n\nSeems to have been after thoughts, and back burner stuff, and forgotten about...\n\nHas it already been commit?\n\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2011-07/msg00206.php\n\nOh, wait, nevermind, it was r...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch:\n\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=597\n\ncaches the cache because, I guess, the cache is slow.\n\nSimon asked, \"What is making the first cache so slow?\". Pavel does not know, nor how to fix it, and nobody else responded.\n\nSo my question is: is someone ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just noticed that this comment got reindented by pgindent\n(xlog.c, line 3226 in REL9_1_STABLE):\n\t\t/*\n\t\t * translator: First %s represents a recovery.conf parameter name like\n\t\t * \"recovery_end_command\", and the 2nd is the value of that parameter.\n\t\t */\n\t\tereport((signaled ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Pavel, this patch:\n\nhttps://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=624\n\nIt applied clean and compiled ok, but I cannot get it to work at all.\n\n$ psql\nTiming is on.\npsql (9.2devel)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\nandy=# set plpgsql.prepare_plans to on_start;\nERROR: unrecognized c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Interesting.\n\n http://pgxn.org/dist/pg-json/\n\nBest,\n\nDavid\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:13:42 -0700", "msg_from": "\"David E. Wheeler\" <david@kineticode.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "pg-json" } ]
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there a plan to wrap up 9.2 Alpha 1 before the next commitfest?\n\nRegards,\n-- \nDevrim GÜNDÜZ\nPrincipal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com\nPostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer\nCommunity: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nThis patch adds the backend's current running query to the \"backend\ncrash\" message.\n\nThe crashing query is often a good starting point in debugging the\ncause, and much more easily accessible than core dumps.\n\nExample output:\nLOG: server process (PID 31451) was terminated...
[ { "msg_contents": "There was a discussion months ago about helping people document the\npgpass columns, so I added a documentation sentence suggestion the use\nof a comment. Patch attached and applied to 9.1 and head.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Magnus-san and Bruce-san.\n\nI am sorry in a very late reaction...\n\nIs it enough for a 9.1release?\nlibpq of bcc32 and win32 has a problem.\n\n== error of nmake ==\n ライブラリ .\\Release\\libpqdll.lib とオブジェクト\n.\\Release\\libpqdll.exp を作成中\nlibpq.lib(fe-connect.obj) : error LNK2019: 未解決の外部...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi list,\n\nIt seems I have found a regression in PostgreSQL 9.1rc1 (from 9.0).\n\nIn many cases, running the following query fails:\ndb=# EXPLAIN select * from information_schema.key_column_usage;\nERROR: record type has not been registered\n\nHowever, this is not always reproducible. It se...
[ { "msg_contents": "Get the following error\n\nconfigure:3274: ccache gcc -V >&5\nllvm-gcc-4.2: argument to `-V' is missing\n\nshould be\nccache gcc -v >&5\n\nDave\nDave Cramer\n\ndave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca\nhttp://www.credativ.ca\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:56:41 -0400", "msg_from": "Dave Cr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIf a basic operator family is created, e.g.,\n\ncreate operator family of1 using btree;\n\nshouldn't pg_dump include this in its output? If not, why?\n\nJoe\n", "msg_date": "Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:14:31 -0400", "msg_from": "Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com>", "msg_from_op": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile updating the translation I noticed a typo in\nsrc/backend/commands/collationcmds.c circa line 126.\n\nparameter \\\"lc_collate\\\" parameter must be specified\n\n\n-- \n Euler Taveira de Oliveira - Timbira http://www.timbira.com.br/\n PostgreSQL: Consultoria, Desenvol...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have fixed a bug introduced by pgrminclude. It turns out that\nCppAsString2() will expand any symbol, even one that is undefined, so\npgrminclude thought that catalog/catversion was not needed. This is\nillustrated in the attached C file that outputs \"1\" and \"y\".\n\nI have bumped the ...